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Do you love acting and want to improve your skills? Acting lessons are a great place to start -- but you can also learn a lot simply from curling up on the couch for movie night! Take a look at these eight movies you can study to learn about important acting techniques from your favorite on-screen actors and actresses.
Instinct
Instinct is a natural tendency to, in character, behave in a certain way. All actors have a bit of instinct  some more than others. For example, Peter Sellers' succe …
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8 Movies Every Actor Should Study

Do you love acting and want to improve your skills? Acting lessons are a great place to start -- but you can also learn a lot simply from curling up on the couch for movie night! Take a look at these eight movies you can study to learn about important acting techniques from your favorite on-screen actors and actresses.
Instinct
Instinct is a natural tendency to, in character, behave in a certain way. All actors have a bit of instinct  some more than others. For example, Peter Sellers' succe

6 Kids' Acting Games to Play With Your Budding Actor

Whether youre the parent of a budding actor, or a drama enthusiast hoping to ignite a stage spark in your child, there are plenty of cool acting games you can play at home! Acting games are used in many top drama classes and workshops because theyre really handy for developing key acting and performance skills in a fun way. Another cool thing about acting games is that they cost nothing but time and creativity, yet yield educational and personal development as well as hours of precious family

The Actor's Life for Me: How to Make a Living (and a Life!) as an Actor

What do you need to succeed in the arts? Is it possible to make a living with an actor/actress salary? Learn the ins and outs of the on-screen or on-stage life in this guest post by Saint Paul, MN acting teacher Emily B...
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While you may not have chosen a traditional career path, pursuing the life of an actor does not mean you must be flung out into the abyss without a safety net, prepared only to fly or fall. There are many ways to build a life worth living as an actor. In my expe

You Know You're An Actor When...

Actors are an incredibly diverse group of people, but because we love to act, we actually have a lot in common! Whether you're working in theater or film, you probably have more than one of these funny quirks and habits...
You have headshots everywhere.
If your acting career is important to you, you know that having headshots that accurately reflect what you currently look like is mandatory. Did you get a haircut? Time for new headshots!
You are a master of the quick change.

8 Improv Acting Tips to Create the Best Scenes Possible

Interested in learning more about improv? Get started with these improv acting tips from Brooklyn, NY teacher Liz T...
Improv acting is believed to be one of the most fun types of acting, and although it may not look hard, it is also one of the most difficult forms of acting! It requires constantly being on your toes, because you never know what will happen next in your scene. Many of the actors that have performed on popular shows like Saturday Night Live have studied the craft for many ye